

There is a season mode which lets you experience the career without the management mechanic but with only one car to choose from it is very limited and can get repetitive rather quickly. I understand there is a market out there for this style of gameplay but for the casual racer, it can be off-putting.


It’s pretty standard now to combine it with a convoluted, over-complicated management simulator complete with confusing menus to navigate and unnecessary decisions to make. I feel WRC 8 suffers from this problem like most official sports games released these days. We fast forward to 2020 and I feel the genre has lost that fun-factor over the years, a break from the intense racing and career mode. The developers crammed it full of wacky bonus content, tracks set inside an active volcano, tanks which made multiplayer much more interesting and then there are the cheats, fancy lowering gravity just give the name of the racer MOONWALK or BLANCMANGE to race in a jelly car. Another reason which kept me popping that disc back into the console was fun. With over 100 stages, 14 locations and dynamic weather conditions what could go wrong……ĭo I have what it takes to be the next Henri Toivonen or is it best to casually hand the keys in and walk away whistling from the scene after crashing into a tree? Leave it to the professionalsĪs a teenager, I loved playing racing games – two titles, in particular, were Colin Mcrae Rally and TOCA, they managed to capture the excitement and realism of what it was like to be behind the wheel at high speeds. It was a joy to hear that the Switch version was also going to include all the same features and career mode as its undoubtedly more powerful competitors with no compromises to the gameplay, the only feature to be missing from the Switch release would be offline and online multiplayer. Just over a month later screeching out of the gate it landed on to the Nintendo Switch. After having a 2-year hiatus the return of the officially licensed rally simulator from Kylotonn boasted upgraded driving physics, realistic graphics and authentic experience for any fan of the series. WRC 8: World Rally Championships was originally released on the PS4 and Xbox One in September 2019, receiving a mostly positive reception from fans and critics alike.
